Device for delivering messages to engineers and conductors.



N0.'826,020. I PATENTED JULY 17, 1906.

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DEVICE FOR DELIVERING MESSAGES T0 ENGINEERS AND GONDUGTORS. APPLICATION FILED MAYB, 190s.

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WILLIAM H. DI'ENER, OF NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA.

DEVICE FOR DELIVERING MESSAGES T ENGINEERS AND CONDUCTORS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 17, 1906.

' ductors; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description .of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in means for delivering orders to engineers and conductors while a train is in motion, and comprises a simple and eflicient device of this nature made of a single piece of wire which is bent to form a loop and handle, with a portion of the wire, which is resilient, bent to form a clamping member to cooperate with the loop to hold the message.

My invention consists, further, in various details of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, which will be hereinafter fully described, and then specifically defined in the appended claims. I

I illustrate my invention in the accomp anying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of myinvention, and Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail sectional view showing the manner of holding the message by means of the resilient clamping member.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates a loop which is formed of a single piece of wire, which may be of any desirable size. The strand of which said loop is constructed is bent upon itself, forming a handle B, and one end of said wire is bent to form an eye A, adapted to engage the loop. Said wire has a portion bent to form a coil E about the loop and has a part F bent upon itself to form a resilient clam ing-hook designed to cooperate with the a jacent part of the loop to form means for holding a message between said resilient member and the loop, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. A portion of said resilient clamping member is extended and twisted about the loop, as at K, and thence bent to form a hook N, which engages the two portions of the wire which form the handle. It will be noted that the loop is formed at one side of the longitudinal center of the handle and is made preferably of suflicient size so that the arm of an engineer or other person upon the train to receive the message may catch the loop when the train is going rapidly, while the device is being held by the handle by a person standing near the train as it passes.

What I claim is 1. A device for delivering messages to persons upon moving trains, comprising a holder made of a single piece of wire which is bent to form a loop, a portion of the wire forming the loop being bent upon itself to form a handle, and clamping means for holding a message to the marginal edge of the loop, as set forth.

2. A device for delivering messages to per sons upon moving trains, comprising a holder made of a single piece of wire which is bent to form a loop, a portion of the wire forming the loop being bent upon itself to form a handle, a portion of the wire forming the loop and handle being bent upon itself and forming a resilient clamping member adapted to coop erate with the loop to hold a message, as set forth.

3. A device for delivering messages to persons on trains while in motion, comprising a wire which is bent to form a loop, a portion of the strand of the wire being bent upon itself to form a handle, a part of the wire being twisted about one strand of the loop and bent upon itself to form a resilient clamping member, between which and the loop a message is adapted to be frictionally held, a portion of the wire forming said clamping member be ing twisted about the strand of the loop and about the parts which are bent upon themselves, as set forth.

' In testimony whereof I hereunto Et'fIlX my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM H. DIENER.

Witnesses:

JOHN J. HALLIGAN, T. S. BLANKENBURG. 

